Lvyang Hotel 绿杨旅社

In this sentence, it vividly displays the beautiful scenery of Yangzhou, so it is often quoted by men of literature and writing, and even “Lvyang” has become the synonym of Yangzhou. The owner of the Lvyang Hotel takes the word “Lv Yang” as the name of the hotel, which is absolutely wonderful and poetic.

Stepping into the Lvyang Hotel, the customers can see the reliefs, arches, curved window holes, stained glass, thick and solid counters with patterns, terrazzo floors with delicate patterns, and polished wooden stairs. One can still see the reminiscence of charm in that year. The guest rooms on the second and third floors of Linmen Lian’er Street have small terraces, surrounded by green iron railings, the visitors can overlook the alleys, and the top floor is a terrace. There are more than one hundred beds on the top and bottom. The beds are made of irons. Each room is equipped with a rosewood tea table, Haimei small square table, a wardrobe, and a dressing table. The entire hostel looks simple and elegant. For a hundred years, many celebrities have lived here. In the 1930s and 1940s, there were Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Ke, Kong Xiangxi, Chen Yi, Deng Yingchao, and Yu Dafu, Zhou Zuoren, Wang Shaotang, Li Zhongnan, Yi Junzuo, et al. lived here.

Lvyang Hostel has gone through the vicissitudes of a hundred years. It is like a woman who has had the prime and declining days. Old as it looks now, many people still remember it…